Speaking in La Cañada before a skeptical and at times argumentative audience, Los Angeles County Department of Public Works officials on Nov. 6 completed the last leg of a brief informational tour of the final Devil’s Gate Dam sediment removal...

Descanso Gardens will unveil Saturday an oak woodland that provides a glimpse of what Los Angeles might have looked like before 16th-century European settlers and their livestock arrived and forever changed the Southern Californian landscape.
The 7.7-...

Area residents are invited to a special water-conservation program, “Be Water Wise Today, Tomorrow & Always,” which will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26 at the La Cañada Thursday Club, 4440 Woodleigh Lane. The club’s...

President Obama plans to announce Friday that he will set aside roughly half of the San Gabriel Mountains as a national monument, bringing stronger federal protections to the range to shield it from crowding and pollution, according to the Los Angeles...

On a modest stretch of Linda Vista Avenue near the La Cañada Flintridge-Pasadena border lies a nondescript piece of land whose dry shrubs and trees thinly veil a rich biodiversity of life teeming within.
An old wire fence, laid years ago with a small gap in between posts for occasional passage, offers one entrance into the Cottonwood Canyon, an 11-acre parcel of land that connects the Arroyo Seco, just south of Devil’s Gate Dam, to the San Rafael mountains.
Held jointly for more than a century...

La Cañada Unified School District is in the process of examining the way it provides special education resources for more than 400 students, and wants to hear what parents have to say.
In an open meeting held Thursday, April 24, the district invited parents of special education students to give their input on services provided and share their experiences navigating those services. The idea, said consultant Bob Farran, was to find out what could be improved upon and how.
"Our goal here is to listen and...

The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) announced last week the appointment of Foothill Municipal Water District (FMWD) Director Richard Atwater to its Southern California Board of Directors. Atwater replaces James Edwards, who served as a FMWD representative to the board for 15 years before resigning.
In his new capacity, Atwater will vote on water issues affecting MWD and the 19 million customers who live in its six-county service area. He plans to focus on maintaining a reliable water supply in the face...

The city of La Cañada Flintridge has joined four other cities — Glendale, Pasadena, South Pasadena and Sierra Madre — in an alliance designed to respond quickly and efficiently to the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) underway by Metro and Caltrans related to the 710 Freeway Tunnel Project.
The report is expected to be released sometime this spring. Once it is, local officials are expecting to have just 90 days to review the massive document and conduct their own studies in response....

Re: “Planting the city's legacy,” May 1, a photo and caption describing the Arbor Day planting. Arbor Day is supposed to be about celebrating trees, connecting children with nature and nurturing our urban forests. It's sad that the city chose to plant a carrotwood tree, a native to Australia that does not support nature in California because it contributes little to the food web: 90% of all species of leaf-eating — caterpillars of butterflies, for example — can eat only native...

Creativity paid off for two La Cañada Elementary School fifth-graders who recently beat out more than 100 other artists to win the top two places in this year's "Water is Life" art contest sponsored by the Foothill Municipal Water District.
Classmates Derek Jiang, 10, and 11-year-old Shelby Perez learned late last week their art pieces — which both feature strong messages about water conservation — had been selected to win first- and second-place awards, along with cash prizes and gift cards...

Los Angeles County transportation officials have pushed back its release of an environmental report regarding 710 Freeway extension proposals, local officials learned this week.
Once available, the data provided in the draft Environmental Impact report will be analyzed by a group called the '5 Cities Alliance,' a partnership between Glendale, La Cañada, Pasadena, South Pasadena and Sierra Madre that allows the cities to pool their resources for one joint study as opposed to each city paying for a...